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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #420 on: March 10, 2009, 05:24:00 PM »

Just watched Expelled. Total crap. Religulous will be here tomorrow, I have much higher hopes for Bill Maher.

That's kind of like saying "Just watched Fried Green Tomatoes. Total crap.  Predator will be here tomorrow, I have much higher hopes for Arnold Schwarzenegger." 
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« Reply #421 on: March 10, 2009, 05:24:58 PM »

Religulous was a fun movie though, unless you are offended by criticism of specific religions of course.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #422 on: March 10, 2009, 07:49:10 PM »

Did anybody mention that Alan Moore, the author of the original comic, totally disowned the project and refuses to even see the film?

That's a blanket thing, though, and not restricted to this film.

Alan Moore is an nutbag asshole anyway. His opinions suck.

Yeah, he did the same thing with V for Vendetta which was an excellent movie.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #423 on: March 10, 2009, 11:12:47 PM »

Control

Film about Ian Curtis of Joy Division and his journey to suicide. Very good, especially if you like their music.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #424 on: March 11, 2009, 01:03:04 AM »

Just watched Expelled. Total crap. Religulous will be here tomorrow, I have much higher hopes for Bill Maher.
Not gonna waste my time on Expelled. Saw Religulous in the theatre. If you watch Maher regularly and like his comments on religion, you'll probably like it. I agreed with him, laughed a little, but being immersed in atheism and church-state separation, it was mostly rehashing the same ol' stuff for me. At the end he gets melodramatic about the possible negative consequences religious irrationality might visit upon us. I give it 3 1/2 stars out of 5.
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« Reply #425 on: March 11, 2009, 07:53:42 AM »

Control

Film about Ian Curtis of Joy Division and his journey to suicide. Very good, especially if you like their music.

Control was amazing.  :)

I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, about Jew/Nazi times. It was really really sad, but very good. I LOVE David Thewlis.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #426 on: March 11, 2009, 10:11:35 AM »

I just watched Leatherheads. I laughed a lot.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #427 on: March 11, 2009, 10:38:57 AM »

Friday the 13th part 2...

Only thing to reccomend about it is the cold chick wearing the half shirt and no bra.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #428 on: March 11, 2009, 11:44:51 AM »

Control

Film about Ian Curtis of Joy Division and his journey to suicide. Very good, especially if you like their music.

Control was amazing.  :)

I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, about Jew/Nazi times. It was really really sad, but very good. I LOVE David Thewlis.
I recently watched that as well and agreed.  Very good movie.
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« Reply #429 on: March 11, 2009, 01:54:44 PM »

Watchmen.

Best "Superhero" movie ever.

The end.

Now, I have to disagree with you good buddy on this one.

I will say, I stayed for the whole thing. It was a slimy, anti-freedom-whine-fest. Compromise with human slavery (i.e. communism) was held up as an ideal worthy of sacrificing untold millions to "unite" the world in WAR (called peace in the movie) against Dr. Dangle, who was entirely innocent. Dr. Dangle's super-powers are intentionally kept in check so as to prevent more logical questions from arising - such as, Why, if he is a human god, didn't he just flit from Soviet Silo to Silo replacing the uranium/plutonium in all the Soviet missles with mud? Well, because that would make things too easy, by passing what this movie is really about - getting you to fear and loathe everything around you so much that you'll scream for change, any change, RIGHT NOW. Make "peace" with a brutal dictatorship RIGHT NOW. And what would that peace entail? Would that entail sacrificing property rights? Anything for "peace?" Would that entail nationalizing the means of production to smooth relations with our newfound ally? How about murdering those “misguided” enough to protest against any such measures? Would they be murdered for the new “peace?”

It is unfortunate that Dr. Dangle was not endowed with super-human Judgement. He seemingly buys the villian's ridiculous plan  without hesitation, condemns those living under the brutal dictatorship of the CCCP to decades more of Soviet night, butchers his own friend in the most grotesque way (couldn't he just cause a brain embolism or teleport his heart into space? He had to blow his friend up!?), and then leaves happily bearing the blight on his own name - a name which is totally innocent. Also he leaves the villain standing.

It's amazing to me that the makers of this Movie can have a sociopathic rapist "Superhero" (the Comedian) whine about how the American Dream came true even while he's mowing down protestors. To blame the "American Dream" for the way things turned out under an apparently facist american regime (under a Roosevelt-esque Nixon complete with pinnochio nose) is truly bizarre. Similar to, and connected with, blaming capitalism for economic problems when capitalism has never existed and could never have existed in such a place.

Like "V for Vendetta," the "Watchmen" is just a shiny neon fig-leaf for wrinkly, tired and discredited Socialist propaganda."
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #430 on: March 11, 2009, 04:09:18 PM »

*******SPOILER ALERT********** DO NOT READ BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE A SPOILER*********

It was a slimy, anti-freedom-whine-fest. Compromise with human slavery (i.e. communism) was held up as an ideal worthy of sacrificing untold millions to "unite" the world in WAR (called peace in the movie) against Dr. Dangle, who was entirely innocent. Dr. Dangle's super-powers are intentionally kept in check so as to prevent more logical questions from arising - such as, Why, if he is a human god, didn't he just flit from Soviet Silo to Silo replacing the uranium/plutonium in all the Soviet missles with mud? Well, because that would make things too easy, by passing what this movie is really about - getting you to fear and loathe everything around you so much that you'll scream for change, any change, RIGHT NOW.

I have to agree with you on this one. However I think you're referring to "Mr. Manhattan." Why do you call him Dr. Dangle?? Because his dick was dangling around in half of his scenes??

You do raise a good point in the contradiction. If he can teleport himself to Mars while fucking his girlfriend with 6 hands all over her body at once, why couldn't he go to the USSR and disarm the missles?

Like "V for Vendetta," the "Watchmen" is just a shiny neon fig-leaf for wrinkly, tired and discredited Socialist propaganda."
I have to disagree with you about V for Vendetta. V wanted anarchy as a remedy for tyranny. The whole Guy Fawkes gig about blowing up parliament is an anti-state (and therefore anti-socialism) act. Even though the original Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up parliament as a protest (ironically) to protestant rule and change the government to catholic rule. V wanted to go without government. At least that's my interpretation from the film. I've heard that the comic is more anarchist but I haven't read it.
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Re: Last movie you've watched
« Reply #431 on: March 11, 2009, 05:25:59 PM »

It's. A. Goddamn. Movie.

Stop seeing political references in your cereal, god-fucking-damn you.

Umm, it's kind of hard not to see political references in a movie about politics. 
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« Reply #432 on: March 11, 2009, 08:37:54 PM »

It's. A. Goddamn. Movie.

Stop seeing political references in your cereal, god-fucking-damn you.

I'm sorry buddy, I won't do it again, sorry man.
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« Reply #433 on: March 11, 2009, 10:40:05 PM »

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« Reply #434 on: March 11, 2009, 11:18:18 PM »

Primer. Good premise, but it turned out to be a boring indie slog.

You know, folks - you can disregard cinema conventions and still make a coherent, interesting film. I know, crazy right?
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